지식경영연구 (Knowledge Management Research)

한국지식경영학회 (The Knowledge Management Society of Korea)
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벤처기업의 조직학습과 혁신성과: 기업가적 지향성의 매개역할

Organizational Learning for Innovation Performance of Ventures: The Mediating Role of Entrepreneurial Orientation

  • 투고 : 2023.03.17
  • 심사 : 2023.05.29
  • 발행 : 2023.06.30
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조직 학습은 벤처기업이 성공적인 혁신 창출에 필요한 지식 기반을 구축하는데 필수적이다. 하지만 이러한 벤처기업의 조직 학습이 성과 향상에 어떤 기제로 영향을 미치는지에 관해서는 더 많은 연구가 필요한 상황이다. 이에 본 연구는 벤처기업의 학습-성과 기제에 기업가적 지향성이 어떻게 작용하는지 살펴보았으며, 본 연구가 벤처기업 맥락의 연구라는 점을 고려해 두 유형의 혁신 성과 지표를 활용하였다: 기술경쟁력, 사업 성과. 본 연구는 총 218개 국내 벤처기업을 대상으로 수집한 자료를 분석하였으며, 그 결과 획득적 학습과 실험적 학습의 조직 학습을 강조하는 기업일수록 높은 수준의 기업가적 지향성을 나타냄을 확인하였다. 이는 벤처기업이 조직 학습을 많이 수행할수록 지식기반 자산을 보다 생산적으로 활용하는 기업가적 지향성이 높다는 것을 의미한다. 또한 본 연구는 기업가적 지향성이 벤처기업의 조직 학습과 혁신 성과를 완전 매개함을 확인하였다. 본 연구는 상대적으로 작은 규모와 짧은 업력으로 인해 한계에 직면하는 벤처기업이 지식을 습득하고 활용하기 위한 조직 학습을 통해 혁신 성과를 향상시킬 수 있음을 보였다는 점에서 기존 연구 및 실무에 기여한다.

While organizational learning (OL) is vital for ventures to build knowledge bases necessary for successful innovation, less attention has been paid to how learning organizations leverage it for performance improvement. We investigate entrepreneurial orientation's (EO) role in performance-by-learning mechanisms underpinning ventures' innovative initiatives, adopting dyadic performance indicators: technological competitiveness and business performance. Analyzing 218 Korean ventures, our study shows that firms valuing OL, characterized by acquisitive and experimental learning, exhibit high EO, facilitating productive use of knowledge-based resources and enhancing performance. Importantly, EO fully mediates the performance implications of OL. Our findings suggest that a comprehensive learning approach for knowledge acquisition and experimentation provides ventures, often facing smallness and newness liabilities, with a fertile entrepreneurial ground for increased innovation returns.

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